My recent experiment didn't take long. This community continues to confuse me. We've got longstanding respected members of the community whom frequently make posts such as (within the past week or so):

"Monster spines are stupid and pointless and shouldn't exist""too bad he made it up and abyss is going to continue making games suck""Vampire should have one state: removed""no, it still sucks""intentionally getting abyssal rune as your third rune is already idiotic unless you're worshipping lugonu""this is a terrible suggestion."

And so on. I made two posts agreeing with other posters' suggestions to change or remove things. I agreed that spiny frogs' names were confusingly based on flavor alone and did not come with an interesting mechanic, and I agreed with another poster that torment should be removed because I only ever found it to be an annoyance. My posts were promptly deleted and that account was permanently banned.

Why is that? I love the game Crawl, but the community here continues to perplex me. It continues to become more toxic, elitist, and dismissive of opinions that don't come from the vetted members of the community whom have apparently earned the right to be rude, nasty, and condescending without suffering the consequences that are reserved only for newer posters whom go against the grain of the "good old boys".

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